NAME
Dancer::Plugin::Paginate - HTTP 1.1 Range-based Pagination for Dancer apps.
VERSION
Version 1.0.2
DESCRIPTION
HTTP 1.1 Range-based Pagination for Dancer apps.
Provides a simple wrapper to provide pagination of results via the HTTP 1.1 Range headers for AJAX requests.
SYNOPSIS
To use, simply add the "paginate" keyword to any route that should support HTTP Range headers. The HTTP Request will be processed and Dancer session variables will be populated with the items being requested.
use Dancer::Plugin::Paginate;
get '/data' => paginate sub { ... }
...Configuration Options
Ajax-Only
Options: true|false
Default: true
Determines if paginate should only operate on Ajax requests.
Mode
Options: headers|parameters|both
Default: headers
Controls if paginate will look for the pagination in the headers, parameters, or both.
If set to both, headers will be preferred.
Headers Mode
Header mode will look for the following 2 Headers:
Both are required.
You can read more about these at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt and http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-latest.html.
Range-Unit will be returned to your app, but is not validated in any way.
Parameters mode
Parameters mode will look the following parameters in any of Dancer's parameter sources (query, route, or body):
Start and End are required. Range-Unit will be populated with an empty string if not available.
Keywords
paginate
The paginate keyword is used to add a pagination processing to a route. It will:
- Check if the request is AJAX (and stop processing if set to ajax-only).
- Extract the data from Headers, Parameters, or Both.
- Store these in Dancer Session Variables (defined below).
- Run the provided coderef for the route.
- Add proper headers and change status to 206 if coderef was successful.
Vars:
- range_available - Boolean. Will return true if range was found.
- range - An arrayref of [start, end].
- range_unit - The Range Unit provided in the request.
In your response, you an optionally provide the following Dancer Session Variables to customize response:
- total - The total count of items. Will return '*' if not provided.
- return_range - An arrayref of provided [start, end] values in your response. Original will be reused if not provided.
- return_range_unit - The unit of the range in your response. Original will be reused if not provided.
AUTHOR
Colin Ewen, <colin at draecas.com>
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-dancer-plugin-paginate at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Dancer-Plugin-Paginate. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Dancer::Plugin::PaginateThis is developed on GitHub - please feel free to raise issues or pull requests against the repo at: https://github.com/Casao/Dancer-Plugin-Paginate.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to David Precious, <davidp at preshweb.co.uk> for his Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Extensible framework, which provided the Keyword syntax used by this module. Parts were also used for testing purposes.
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2014 Colin Ewen.
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